COMMONS
This inquiry has concluded. A report was published on 22 January. Click here to access the Report.
The Report concluded that the new global development goals to end extreme poverty, improve health and education, and promote sustainability must be simple and measurable.
The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will expire in 2015, and the Secretary General of the UN has appointed a High-Level Panel to assess what should replace them. Co-chairs of the High-Level Panel are the British Prime Minister David Camerson, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia.
At Rio +20 it was agreed to set up a process to establish Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The United Nations General Assembly will appoint a group of representatives from 30 countries by September to develop the goalsUseful links for post-2015 inquiry:
• United Nations ‘Beyond 2015’ webpage -
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/beyond2015.shtml
• ‘Beyond 2015’ civil society coalition -
http://www.beyond2015.org/
23 October 2012 :Post-2015 Development Goals: Watch Session
31 October 2012: Post-2015 Development Goals: Watch Session
20 November 2012: Post-2015 Development Goals: Watch Session
Goals to end extreme poverty, improve health and education, and promote sustainability must be simple and measurable, according to MPs
Publication of Eighth Report: Post-2015 Development Goals